Not-Guilty Pleas Entered for Suspect in Slayings
From Times Wire Reports
Prosecutors in Coeur d’Alene said they would seek the death penalty against Joseph Edward Duncan III, after a judge entered not-guilty pleas to charges of murder and kidnapping on behalf of the registered sex offender.
Duncan, 42, did not speak during the 15-minute arraignment, and public defender John Adams declined to enter a plea.
District Judge Fred Gibler then entered pleas of not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree kidnapping involving the slaying of three people in a rural house in mid-May.
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